Riverhead lost its starting staff, but Maccone isn’t worried

He lost his entire starting pitching rotation from last season, but the Riverhead High School baseball coach, Rob Maccone, isn’t fretting. He didn’t name names, but Maccone figures he has some intriguing candidates to pick up the slack this season.

“We had three kids who averaged five or six innings a start,” he said. “That’s tough to overcome. We have four or five guys with solid arms. All they lack is innings.”

Maccone began to discover what those arms can do on Monday, the first day of baseball practice for New York State teams.

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